Crime comedy film “Be Somebody” held up strongly at the top of the mainland Chinese box office, in a weekend where the top four places remained unchanged.“Be Somebody” scored $21.9 million on its third weekend of release, just 8% down on its second weekend figure, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway.
That give it a cumulative gross of $94.4 million, since releasing on Nov.
11.The movie directed by Liu Xunzi Mo is a send-up of crime drama tropes, making fun of the genre through the story of a group of filmmakers trying to please a wealthy patron by creating a sufficiently blood-thirsty crime thriller when things begin to go awry in the mansion where they are cloistered to work on the project.
It stars Zheng Yin (“Goodbye Mr.
Loser”), Deng Jiajia, Yu Entai, and Yang Haoyu (“The Wandering Earth”).
It was produced by Maoyan Pictures.Keeping its second place, in its second weekend,
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